Vera Quartet: HAYDN - Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- JOSEPH HAYDN Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1
Vera Quartet
Performed on Thursday, January 23, 2019
Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Joseph Haydn earned the label “the father of the string quartet” thanks to his masterful development of this musical form over his entirety of his career, writing more than sixty quartets. Haydn spent most of his life working for the nobility, and initially experimented with this ensemble to provide background music for parties. Gradually he elevated the form, texture, and substance of the string quartet so that it could emerge from the background to center stage, commanding the attention of the audience with its symphonic scope.
The Opus 76 quartets were written toward the end of Haydn’s life, after he had achieved great success and fame, and are hailed as some of his greatest quartet masterworks. The first quartet of the set claims the listener’s attention from its very opening, with three declamatory chords in the Allegro con spirito. Haydn keeps the surprises coming: the cello and viola are in the forefront with solos, building to duos, until finally all four instruments join together. The Adagio sostenuto is an ode to Haydn’s vocal compositions of the same period, as the melody sings in a hymn-like texture, eventually leading to the energetic Menuet: Presto. He saves one final surprise for the Finale: Allegro ma non troppo by beginning the movement in G minor and building tension, only to return to the original key and end as he began: with the same three triumphant chords that opened the quartet.
-Hannah Horine
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6:48 is 2nd movement (Slow); 14:43 is 3rd movement (in 3) ; 17:15 is last movement (Presto)
It has always amazed me how compositions for just 4 musicians can contain so much musical complexity and tonal variety.
Especially considering he essentially invented the genre.
@@mikern2001 Haydn is one of the most under-rated of the great composers (not a particularly deep or original insight on my part). This work is perfect example; incredible music. Sviatislav Richter said that the Haydn piano sonatas were superior to Mozart's.
@@donaldallen1771 That's not really saying much. The piano sonatas are probably among the lowest regarded of Mozart's works along with the early symphonies.
Wunderschön, Balsam für die Seele! Vielen herzlichen Dank 👍 🤗 🌻
One of the best Haydn performances I have heard. The technique, interpretation, and sound were all excellent. The synchronisation in the fast unison passages was a joy to hear.
Особенно 2. ое движение, это как вход в рай. Комплименты!
This masterwork is performed here with the required acumen. The playing by the quartet is musically convincing and technically brilliant. All the (intellectual) drama, lyricism and humor is well captured. Most enjoyable!
Congrats to the audio tech! You knew exactly how to capture the sound these 4 people produced. Right mics in the right place. Well done indeed.
100% agree, sounds like we're in the room
Clean, fresh and lively...exactly the qualities this piece most needs. ..more from this group please. Thanks to Curtis Institute of Music for offering us a gem.
What a beatiful quartet and what a good reading by this talented young people!
Tremendous performance skillful, intelligent and dramatic just wonderful what a treat thank you Vera Quartet
6:47 aaaahhhh... so beautiful I'm melting..
Big props to the audio tech. Best mics to use, and you put them in the right place exactly. Very old fashioned nowadays to actually KNOW what you’re doing. Congratulations.
One of the later H. quartets still unknown to me - how wonderful to experience for the first time this delightful, rich and perfectly calculated musical creation so exquisitely played!
i’m playing this with my quartet and we have a masterclass this wednesday on this! it’s such a fun piece to play!! ⚡️💕
Hi
Beautiful performance! Clear lines, clean playing, wonderful tone. Thank you!
Quite, quite superb.
This is an amazing song. I am listening this because Of the book “Year of Wonder” as it the song recommend for July 13
Oh what a nice book that must be, tell us more! Is it a cultural tip per day? What are your best discoveries so far?
Same here!
Same here
@@PapierStein Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day. Apparently it is a book which gives you a recommendation for a piece of classical music to enjoy every day for one year. I quote " From Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Puccini to George Gershwin, Clara Schumann, Philip Glass, Duke Ellington, and many remarkable yet often-overlooked voices, Burton-Hill takes us on a dazzling journey through our most treasured musical landscape." Bit of a surprise to see Duke Ellington in there, TBH.
Magnificent playing , a joy to listen to 🙏
🆒So cheerfully! So Hydn! What a blessed feeling🆒
I fully concur with the adulatory comments above regarding the performance. I would also mention it's really beautifullty recorded. If it's just those two little overheads, someone knows a lot about placement.
Oh yeah
Superb
Rockin rubato!!
6:25, the second movement.
Bella Mount
Klasa 7a pozdrawia. XD
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Cremin Highway
Who is this wonderful group please?
The Vera Quartet 🎶
17:14
3:40
spoczi pozdr
Such a beautiful tone always makes me drunk.